Night lights 2012 the black marble.
High resolution blue marble.
It was taken by the crew of the apollo 17 spacecraft on its way to the moon and is one of the most reproduced images in history.
Make sure to see this sucker full size to really.
This image shows south america from september 2004.
Next generation is a series of images that show the color of the earth s surface for each month of 2004 at very high resolution 500 meters pixel at a global scale.
The blue marble is an image of earth taken on december 7 1972 from a distance of about 29 000 kilometers 18 000 miles from the planet s surface.
This spectacular blue marble image is the most detailed true color image of the entire earth to date.
Using a collection of satellite based observations scientists and visualizers stitched together months of observations of the land surface oceans sea ice and clouds into a seamless true color mosaic of every square kilometer 386 square mile of our planet.
This composite image uses a number of swaths of the earth s surface taken on january 4 2012.
It mainly shows the earth from the mediterranean sea to antarctica.
Published december 6 2012.
This was the first time the apollo trajectory.
The npp satellite was renamed suomi npp on january 24 2012 to honor the late verner e.